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- 40 - 4. Naturally we would be concerned to discover the extent to which Scots and Scotch- Irish contributed to the growth of the new lands from Ohio west from 1850 onwards. The Census data show foreign born in States and territories. Another study indicates the total immigration from Scotland from 1850 to 1910 (Table XXIV). The following Table will give some indication of the Scottish foreign-born of selected states. 1850* 1870 TABLE XXIV Foreign-Born White 1870 Canadian*** Scotland 1920** For. Born* For. Born** Born Scot. to U.S.A* to State Minnesota 1,977 160,697 2,194 16,881 14,860 Iowa 20,969 204,962 5,248 17,894 17,725 Missouri 76,592 222,267 3,283 8,406 11,983 North Dakota South Dakota - - 41815 77 705 59232 3,885 Nebraska- - 30,748 792 2,632 7,864 Kansas - 48,392 1,530 5,295 11,272 Montana - 7,979 208 1,161 9,175 Idaho - 7,885 114 332 5,418 Wyoming - 3,513 260 1 4,134 Colorado - 6,599 188 705 11,257 N. Mexico 2,151 5,620 36 122 1,386 Arizona - 5,809 54 142 2,113 Utah - 30,102 2,391 686 10,123 Nevada - 18,881 630 2,356 1,172 Washington 2,044 5,024 309 960 22,572 Oregon 1,022 11,600 394 1,168 10,965 California 21,802 209,831 4,959 10,602 48,019 * Cumulative to 18501 ** Cumulative to 18701 *** 1920 Census2 Comments on Table XXIV. The rapidity with which Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, Utah and California grew from 1850 to 1870 was indicative that many hundreds of thousands wanted to settle west of the Mississippi where lands were available at a lower cost. Both Scots and Canadians were involved in the search for land In the 70's when Americans built their railroad lines. Canada had to wait for another decade before she could develop a line to the Pacific. In that period 1870-79 Scotland sent 67,445 and Ireland over 400,000 persons to the United States. Arizona, Montana and Nevada drew miners from both lands. Utah had other reasons for their growth. 1 Table V. General Nativity and Foreign Parentage Census of 1870. pp. 299-325. 2 Table VI. Special Nativity by States and Territories. p. 340.
- 41 - 5. Carrothers reports that 300 settlers were taken by Father Nugent to Minnesota in 1880. Only five families remained after two years.(8) 6. Briggs reports that in 1883 several colonies of Scotch and English colonists were settled in Yankton Co., Dakota.and that large movements of Polish, Norwegians, Germans, Canadians and Swedes began before 1880. (1) 7. Mrs. Grube was asked if she could name members of the McDuffie family who went "west of the Mississippi. Her comments were that she would supply such information, gathered from correspondence, but without proof of their authenticity. I have chosen a few. a) Elizabeth, John Alexander, William Neill and Duncan Brown, children of Angus McDuffie of North Carolina were in Jackson County, Iowa in 1848. William and Duncan went to San Francisco in the 1850 gold rush days. John moved to western Iowa and then to Kansas. b) Another Angus of Montgomery County, N.C. took up land in Tennessee in the 1820's and moved to Alabama. His children went to Oklahama, Arkansas and Texas. Mrs. Grube commented, on the fact that "many of the North Carolina McDuffies went to Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi or Texas". c) Some N.C. McDuffies went through Kentucky to Indiana, Ohio, Oregon d) The New Hampshire and New York McDuffies tied children who went to California, Missouri, Iowa and Oregon. She mentions Angus McDuffie, New York, ca 1765,whose son, Hilton Harvey McDuffie died in Santa Barbara. These are, to use her phrase, "drops in the bucket" and probably the McDuffie family will find opportunity to collect and codify groups who "went west" a few went to Canada. 8. The persons who claimed Scotland as their origin were: 1890 – 519,252 1900 – 594,297 1910 – 659,663 1920 - 731,239 My impression is that Scots and Scotch-Irish did not go to the hinterlands on their arrival but that they moved into districts and to occupations which kept them on the east side of the Mississippi River for some time. In Canada it was the sons and daughters of the pioneer who moved to new areas; I suspect that this would be generally true in the United States. California Cardinal Goodwin made a contribution to an historical study of Thomas Oliver Larkin. The volume was presented to Dr. Herbert Eugene Bolton, "a great Professor of History In the University of California". Included in this article is Thomas Oliver Larkin descriptions of the population of California in 1846. It says that "the population consists of countless wild Indiana, fifteen thousand descendants of Spanish and Mexican fathers and, mostly, from native mothers, and one thousand to twelve hundred foreigners, including their families.
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